That's because Sugarmann's comments weren't worthy of a response. We're in the midst of a massive buying spree of guns and ammo, and this bozo want's us to believe the gun ownership is declining?Gun ownership has fallen sharply from 54 percent of U.S. households in 1977 to 32 percent in 2011, according to the University of Chicago's General Social Survey. In that context - and amid calls for new restrictions on guns - it's important for the NRA to show that its membership is rising, said Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, a gun-control group.
"It's in the NRA's interest to show that although gun ownership is decreasing, their membership is rising. They can't in any way be interpreted as a fading movement in a political context," Sugarmann said.
The NRA did not respond to several requests for comment.
The 32 percent number is an outright lie. Looking at the latest Gallup poll - http://www.gallup.com/poll/150353/self- ... -1993.aspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; - household gun ownership is down 3% from 1991 and has risen 7% since Obama took office. The lowest it's been since 1991 is 40%, not 32%.
NRA membership? Heh. If responses on this board are any indication, membership is clearly growing. And why wouldn't it? When the 2nd Amendment is being so clearly threatened, people are not put off by the media's description of the NRA as a hard core anti-gun control activist group.